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The (sweet) garlic-y escape - Petits pains à l’ail et au persil

[Garlic and parsley small breads]

Inspired by Anne and adaptated from The Cook’s Book (p.458)

Well, I know I said I would update foodbeam more often but it seems I’m so busy at the moment that I barely have time

to eat; thus you can imagine how much time I spend cooking – definitely not a lot.

Soooo how a foodaholic (who said greedy?) like me can almost stop cooking/baking? There are multiple answers; but in

my case the answer is: an internship at Pierre Hermé’s pastry shop.

Don’t get me wrong! I do love every single second I spend in the laboratoire. Actually, I do even enjoy waking up at

4.30am. It’s just that the French saying metro-boulot-dodo makes full sense to me now.

Indeed, I feel like I am this saying.

I wake up - take the RER and tube to Pierre Hermé’s Vaugirard pastry shop – work – go back to my flat (ideally located in

the first arrondissement) – sleep for a couple of hours – check my emails and feeds – go to bed – wake up – take the

RER…

However over the last two days, I was put in the afternoon team (yep, the *macarons* one), which means I didn’t start

working until 2pm. So guess how I spent my morning?That’s where we come to the main subject of this article: a yummy and fragrant garlic bread.

A little more than a week ago, I spotted a lovely bread at Beau à la louche – one of my favourite French blogs; it was a

beautifully folded bread in which you find pesto between each layer of dough. Simple, effective, gorgeous.

So I decided to make it, only I replaced the pesto with some herbed butter. And as you can imagine it was delicious.

The first step is to make the dough and beurre persillé (see recipes below).

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And fold in three ( like a business letter).

Top with a third of butter and fold again in three - still in the width (so that the length of your bread remains the same

between the forth and fifth steps).

Spread the remaining butter and fold in two (in the length).

Do the same with the other three balls of dough.

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Eat!

Pains à l’ail et au persil

This bread is really fragrant. The beurre persillé [litteraly parlsey-ish butter] difuses through the bread; keeping ot moist

and flavourful.

This bread is lovely served with a salad made of roasted/grilled mediterannean vegetables.

Pains à l’ail et au persil

makes 4 small individual breads

for the bread dough

7g fresh yeast, crumbled

240ml warm water 

350g strong flour 

1 tsp fine sea salt

Whisk the fresh yeast and water in a bowl until the yeast has completely dissolved. In another bowl, combine the flour 

and salt. Then slowly mix in the wet ingredients. Mix thorougly to make a soft dough. Leave for 10 minutes before starting

to knead.

Then knead the dough for approximately ten minutes until it forms a soft and smooth ball.

Place the dough back in a bowl, cover with a cloth and allow to rise at room temperature for 1h30. Deflate by gently

punching the dough.

Divide the dough into four pieces and proceed with the filling and folding.Pre-heat the oven to 230°C while you leave the bread on a lined baking sheet to rise for 45 minutes.

Bake for 25-30 minutes until golden-brown.

for the herbed butter 

a large bunch of parsley, very finely chopped

6 fat cloves of garlic, peeled and crushed

75g butter, at room temperature

Mix everything with a wooden spoon until smooth. Divide into four equal portions if making individual breads.